Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries while the surrounding political and

while the surrounding political and ecclesial context is sketched with care

he conducts a forensic examination of their origins

on the other side of Paradise

writing in the heart of industrial England

And Europe is the Faith

Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries while the surrounding political andThis volume presents a clear and faithful Catholic account of the great changes that swept through the Church and the world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Beginning with the early causes of the Protestant revolt, it traces the rise of Lutheranism, the spread of heresy in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, and the long wars that followed across the Christian world. The chapters follow the Churchs firm and supernatural response: the